The 'steady pace of gun violence'
NEWS - Despite the shock over the massacre of children and teachers in Newtown, Connecticut, not much has changed in the U.S., when it comes to gun violence, Melissa Harris-Perry illustrated on her show Sunday...
On the Sandy Hook tragedy: The God we know
ESSAY - We can’t answer why awful people choose to kill our children, whether in 1963 Birmingham or 2012 Newtown. We don’t know why God allows those things to happen...
Sandy Hook massacre puts mental health in the national spotlight
According to numerous reports, Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old who killed 20 children and seven adults in Newtown, Connecticut last Friday before killing himself, allegedly suffered from Asperger’s syndrome.
Democrats to seek return of assault weapons ban
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic lawmakers said Sunday that military-style assault weapons should be banned and that a national commission should be established to examine mass shootings in the United States...
Dyson on 'Meet the Press': Address mental illness, guns
VIDEO - On 'Meet the Press' this week, Professor Michael Eric Dyson sparred with former Education Secretary Bill Bennett and conservative columnist David Brooks over whether, in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre, the nation's focus should be on guns...
Obama: We're not doing enough to protect kids
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — He spoke for a nation in sorrow, but the slaughter of all those little boys and girls left President Barack Obama, like so many others, reaching for words...
